Eloise and Otto Spaeth papers

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

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Thomas Merton was born on January 31, 1915 in Prades, France to Owen Merton (an artist from New Zealand) and Ruth Jenkins Merton (an artist from the United States), and grew up in New York, Bermuda, France, and England. Merton studied both in Europe and America, and he received a BA and an MA in journalism from Columbia University in 1938 and 1939. In 1938, Merton converted to Catholicism. He taught for two years at St. Bonaventure College in New York before entering the Abbey of Gethsemani i...

Peter A. Juley & Son

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Photographic studio. Peter A. Juley (1862-1937) and Paul P. Juley (1890-1975) specialized in photographing works of art and taking portraits of artists, serving museums, galleries, art dealers, private collectors, corporations, conservators, and nearly every major American artist of the late 19th and 20th centuries. From the description of Peter A. Juley & Son Photographs of artists' portraits, their studios, and works. 1982-1996. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: ...

Spaeth Foundation.

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Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994

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First Lady Jacqueline Lee “Jackie” (Bouvier) Kennedy Onassis was a symbol of strength for a traumatized nation after the assassination of one the country’s most energetic political figures, President John F. Kennedy, who served from 1961 to 1963. The inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961 brought to the White House and to the heart of the nation a beautiful young wife and the first young children of a President in half a century. She was born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, daughter of John Verno...

Archives of American Art

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From its founding to 1954 the Archives was headquartered at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1960 the Archives moved its headquarters to New York but a branch office remained in Detroit. In 1963 an office was opened in Rome to collect the records of American artists' work in Italy. In 1970 the Archives became a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution and moved to Washington, D.C. Directors have included Edgar Preston Richardson, 1954-1964; William E. Woolfenden, 1964-1983; Richard N. Murray, 1983...

Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980

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Alexander Brook (1898-1980) was a painter from Sag Harbor, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Alexander Brook, 1977 July 7-8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613315319 Painter (Sag Harbor, N.Y.). From the description of Alexander Brook interviews, 1977 July 7 - 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220179411 Painter; Sag Harbor and New York City, N.Y. From the description of Alexander Brook papers, 1907-1982...

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976

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Sculptor. From the description of Alexander Calder correspondence, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452461 Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Alexander Calder, 1971 Oct. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395903 B. 1898, d. 1976. From the description of Alexander Calder artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228431975 ...

Spaeth, Eloise

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Eloise Spaeth (1902-1998) was a collector and writer from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Eloise Spaeth, 1973 Feb. 6-Mar. 9 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596728 From the description of Oral history interview with Eloise Spaeth, 1973 Feb. 6-Mar. 9 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744429696 d. 1998. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of...

Spaeth, Otto, d. 1966.

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Collector. From the description of Otto Spaeth letters, 1953 and [undated]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565353 ...

Dayton Art Institute

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Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967

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Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Hopper created subdued drama out of commonplace subjects 'layered with a poetic meaning', inviting narrative interpretations. He was praised for "complete verity" in the America he portrayed. His career benefited significantly from his marriage to fellow-artist Josephine Nivison, who...

UNESCO

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Girard, André 1953-

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Spaeth Foundation.

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Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973

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Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) was a Cubist sculptor. From the description of Jacques Lipchitz letter to Sidney Shainwald, 1953 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477647 From the description of Jacques Lipchitz letter, 1953 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613316804 Lithuanian born sculptor who worked in France and the United States. From the description of Letters to Ladislas Segy, ca. 1961-1962. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id...

American federation of arts

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The American Federation of Arts was a non-profit education association that sponsored group and one-man shows as well as lecture tours to promote the arts in America. The correspondence with A.F.A. staff Leila Mechlin, Horace Jayne and Burton Cummings deals primarily with exhibitions of the work of Federico Castellón, Misch Kohn and Mauricio Lasansky. Also mentioned is a lecture tour on prints made by Elmer Adler. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1929-1953...

Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949

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Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) was a watercolorist, lithographer, and etcher from New York, N.Y. Kuhn was a central figure in the organization of the Armory Show, and artistic consultant to the Union Pacific Railroad. From the description of Walt Kuhn, Kuhn family papers, and Armory Show records, 1859-1978, bulk 1900-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82042078 Painter; New York, N.Y. Organizer of the 1913 Armory Show. Adele Weibel w...

Congdon, William, 1912-1998

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